Retail Salespersons salary in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

The figures

The median Retail Salespersons in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area earns $37,340 a year ($17.95 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Retail Salespersons in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn between $36,140 and $45,100 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $34,650 or less and the top 10 percent earn $50,190 or more. BLS estimates 28,230 Retail Salespersons jobs in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area — 23.359 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.93 (below the national concentration). That is 0.7% of all Retail Salespersons employment in the United States (3,897,860 jobs nationally). By employment, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA is the #25 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Retail Salespersons. In aggregate, Retail Salespersons in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn about $1.18 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $33,179.20 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Retail Salespersons is about $0.94 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 1.8% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA stands #7 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Retail Salespersons. By employment, Retail Salespersons is the #2 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Placed against the national distribution for Retail Salespersons, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $37,340 falls between the national median ($35,410) and the national 75th percentile ($38,670). Across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median is $60,690 a year — Retail Salespersons pay is 38.5% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Retail Salespersons in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn 1.4 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($50,190 against $34,650). The middle half spans $8,960 — from $36,140 to $45,100. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($24.13) is 1.45 times the 10th ($16.66). In the upper half of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $45,100 takes home $35,591.02 and the 90th percentile wage of $50,190 takes home $39,288.98 — $3,697.96 more net for $5,090 more gross. Against the median take-home of $29,953.66, the top decile keeps 1.31 times as much. The mean wage of $41,780 sits 11.9% above the median: higher-paid Retail Salespersons pull the average up in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Among the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA, Retail Salespersons ranks #28 by median pay. In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage ladder of covered occupations, Retail Salespersons sits between Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners at $41,170 and Cashiers at $36,560. Retail Salespersons accounts for 2.3% of all employment in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. The average covered metro employs 64,365 Retail Salespersons; Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA employs 0.4 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Oregon

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Oregon; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $29,953.66 of the $37,340 gross is kept ($1,152.06 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 19.78%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 19.19% at the 10th percentile, 19.53% at the 25th percentile, 21.08% at the 75th percentile, 21.72% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $6,509.50 on a gross rise of $8,960.

The same engine at the other published points of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $27,998.94 a year at the 10th percentile to $39,288.98 at the 90th — a spread of $11,290.04 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median wage of $60,690 takes home $46,917.28 a year ($1,804.51 per paycheck, deduction rate 22.69%). The Retail Salespersons median take-home of $29,953.66 sits $16,963.62 (below that area-wide figure.

Multi-state metro area. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA also covers parts of Washington. The take-home estimate above uses Oregon rules — the metro area's primary state. If the job is based in another part of the metro area, the state tax changes: see the Washington paycheck calculator.

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Take-home pay for $37,340 in Oregon

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Retail Salespersons earns $35,410 a year ($17.03 an hour). The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $37,340 is $1,930 (5.5%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $41,780 a year in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA against $37,310 nationally, a gap of $4,470 (12.0%).

Set against the whole local market, the Retail Salespersons 90th percentile of $50,190 is 37% of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA all-occupations 90th percentile ($136,920), and its 10th percentile of $34,650 is 93% of the area-wide 10th ($37,200).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.